#photographytheory

[stephensheffield]

Sunday morning coffee during the photography theory seminar here at NHIAMFA. SO much coffee. @nhiagraduateprograms @atgiese @franciee_pants @dm_witman @yoav.horesh #coffee #photographytheory #isphotographyover . . . . “...if a traditional understanding of “photography” is ill-suited to making sense of the 21st Century’s photographic landscape, then how do we begin to think about what “photography” has become and is becoming?” . . #bwphotography #blackandwhiteart #blackandwhite_perfection #flair_bw #bnw_captures #bnw_life #bnw_planet #bnwmood #bw #bandwart #bandw #bnw ‪#PhotoRTG #fineart_photobw #SPicollective #featureshoot #lensculture #burnmagazine ‬ (at New Hampshire Institute of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzDtxsHgpvH/?igshid=zud5xceymfs2

[reve1111]

I captured the least amount of photographs in 2016. The act of picking up the camera repulsed me. The times when I did feel drawn to document visually, it would feel like a burden after a few moments. Internally, I was a train-wreck. I barely wrote or even ranted much about what went on inside my head. Just like one trip on a hard drug sometime last year, where I internalized it to such an extent that it ended up as a bad trip; I gulped down most of my feelings, both happy ones and the threatening ones. I let them decay within, without letting them find an outlet, until they eventually pushed their way out aggressively one day, and I had no recourse but to succumb and confront them.

I realized that I took most things for granted in the course of the last entire year and paradoxically, it was the same year that made me value some other things much more intensely. Like most aspects, I took the camera for granted too. I abandoned it and almost thought that I would soon give up on attempting to express myself visually. But everything is ephemeral, even stagnation and blockage. As the destructive energies of 2016 culminated into the welcoming arrival of fresh beginner energies of 2017, a slow change enveloped my being. Not immediately, but gradually, I began interacting with the camera once again, finding ways to reclaim that part of me, which had stayed mute for months together. 

I’ve been reading extensively about cameras and the history of photography for the past few days. How many many centuries ago, the perception towards photographs and its significance (or insignificance)  has undergone its own set of phases and movements. I read with curiosity as to how encapsulating a fleeting piece of memory on a film roll has sentimental roots. From the initial processes of a daguerreotype which would consume many hours of the sun’s exposure and many more to be processed as one single photo; to this age and time, when taking a photo is an act of a split-second with the handy phone camera - we have come a long way in history and this callousness with frames is perhaps an inevitable consequence of technological advancement. 

But history is an analysis and a lesson in itself. And it renders me the valuable realization that in this age of documentation and mass creativity, these “clocks for seeing” as Barthes refers to cameras, are a blessing to my own personal introspection, through an external medium. So, I approach the camera with love, with an understanding of its intrinsic value, which is far beyond money and external validation. I am documenting to remember, to commemorate the beauty of this medium. Or perhaps to let forgetting intervene, when it feels it must. 

[georgialwphotography]

Photoshoot Delays

I am not having much luck with my photoshoots as all 3 models have delayed their photoshoots until next week which means that I have no photos or progress for this week sadly. I am very worried that I will not get these shot and edited in time to print in week 12, however U have been informed that printing will be available in week 13 which is a relief. 

If these delays hadn’t happened i would be right on track with my progress, but i hope that the rescheduled dates stick and i am able to complete y photoshoots next week to then go onto editing and printing. 

[gambinijournal]

“Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of image.”

Roland Barthes - ...photography is about looking; look this is the photograph, look I’m on photograph etc etc.

John Berger - we are not looking, we are seeing, reading the visual image

WHO said that photography has no language? Get back to the first lecture!

[scentedstrangertriumph]

#Colours Of Nature: Reposting @unphoundphotography: ... "#unphoundphotography #orchard #awesomephotographers #awesome_photographer_daily #picoftheday #trees #pictureperfect #awesome #sunlight #sunglow #instagood #byron #eastbay #photographerfanatics #photographer_life #photographylovers #photographerslife #naturephotography #naturelover #nature #photofreak #awesomenature #photography #landscapephotography #photographytheory #treefarm #country #countryliving #contracostacounty" http://bit.ly/2GuQaUs

[englishaliengods]

Reposting @unphoundphotography: ... "#unphoundphotography #orchard #awesomephotographers #awesome_photographer_daily #picoftheday #trees #pictureperfect #awesome #sunlight #sunglow #instagood #byron #eastbay #photographerfanatics #photographer_life #photographylovers #photographerslife #naturephotography #naturelover #nature #photofreak #awesomenature #photography #landscapephotography #photographytheory #treefarm #country #countryliving #contracostacounty" http://bit.ly/2GuQaUs

[badadvicewrites]

“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”

 Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

[akademijafotografija]

Juhani Pallasmaa: The Complexity of Simplicity The Inner Structure of the Artistic Image  

Juhani Pallasmaa je bil prejšnji teden na obisku na Fakulteti za Arhitekturo v Ljubljani. Če ste ga zamudili, vam toplo priporočamo njegovo odlično predavanje “O kompleksnosti preprostosti”.

*Za navdih ob pripravljanju semesterske razstave. // Juhani Pallasmaa was visiting Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana a week ago. If you missed the lecture we truly recomend to hear(see) his lecture “The Complexity of Simplicity”.

*For inspiration while preparing semestral exhibition.

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Pub (2020) from Everything is Real series #spectrality #illusion #architecturephotography #rorschachtest #reflections #photographytheory #pareidolia #icanseefaces #urbanexploration #spectersofcovid #abandonedplaces #hauntology https://www.instagram.com/p/CJlyE52nFQb/?igshid=s3xbdpna6p24

[e-janestudio]

The photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity.

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

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[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

@universityofleeds welcomes you to campus with open arms! Campus from Everything is Real series (2020) #universityofleeds #brutalistarchitecture #illusionphotography #pareidolia #reflections #photographytheory #truthclaim #illusion #symmetry #rorschach test #giantrobot #dreamarchitecture #unrealspaces #leeds https://www.instagram.com/p/CFNh_-Inc-Y/?igshid=1cu9tuqgp50p2

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Skyline (2020) from Everything is Real #illusion #mirrorimage #photographytheory #truthclaim #rorschach #pareidolia #imaginarycities #brighton #dreams https://www.instagram.com/p/CB1OEHrHso7/?igshid=1nyeelbu2hemu

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Publishing my ghosts... Narrating the City should be out at the end of November with #intellectbooks #hauntology #urbanism #rephotography #mediatedcity #timetravel #slumclearance #mementomori #postmemory #archival #mediaarchaeology #photographytheory #spectralityresearch https://www.instagram.com/p/CG9jseLnQbV/?igshid=1hexad1z3x39z

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Shopping Centre( 2020) from Everything is Real #architecturephotography #illusion #mirrorimage #photographytheory #truthclaim #rorschach #pareidolia #imaginarycities #dreams https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn73WYnlVf/?igshid=1j78171lbpxgc

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Derelict School (2020) from Everything is Real #hauntology #architecturephotography #illusion #mirrorimage #photographytheory #truthclaim #rorschach #pareidolia https://www.instagram.com/p/CBXvL2Tn5od/?igshid=134kgerovfp9n

[c-o-n-f-l-u-x]

Polytechnic from Everything is Real by Michael C Coldwell (2020) #illusionphotography #reflection #architecture_minimal #unreallandscape #imaginarycities #truthclaim #photographytheory #leedsbeckett https://www.instagram.com/p/CFE3NjPnxGM/?igshid=1xyiogoiz7nu1